When I heard Voicedude's track from Santastic 4 I saw my favourite Christmas TV of all time - The Box of Delights in my head, and I really wanted to do a video for it - I asked but another person had beaten me to it. I saw the original video which is excellent but yet it was more of a traditional mashup affair with loads of Christmas movies and the Blink 182 and Trans-Siberian Orchestra sources, so decided to do mine as more of a simple edit of Box of Delights. I think it works well as an alternative to that video - I wanted to get more of a feeling of magic and delight and awe as a child of Christmas.

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop turned 50 this year, and I pay tribute to the amazing work of this innovative electronic and electroacoustic music studio that created the music and sound effects for such radio and TV shows as Dr Who, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Changes, Blake's 7, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Quatermass and the Pit, Goon Show, Planet Earth and various BBC for Schools programmes and idents - along the way helping to develop many early electronic music techniques, and promoting electronic music in the UK and abroad.

Happy Birthday Radiophonic Workshop!

Whew what HASN’T happened since the last show? New US President -and he’s black. New back pains and colds for Tim - and he’s ill. Yes we can, and No to H8, but not during happy hour or eating your Credit Crunch cereal (you know the one that turns the milk red). A new hope, Episode III, ‘I have a good feeling about this’, but first where’s my money?

Tracklist at the website or in the comments of the MP3, or on an iPod the Lyrics field (press your centre button 4 times).

Image: Original CC image by Lord Jim, design by Tim Baker Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK

From bangin’ Indian Bhangra to Brazilian Baile Funk, crazy champeta from Columbia to Puerto Rico reggaeton, to Japanese hiphop and Arabian rap, we’ve got it all in the final part of our international journey through hiphop.

And not once did I mention Rigodon or Willy Fog! I’m proud of myself.

Hey now the story must go on ‘cause a lot of time has gone we must be ready to go away.....

'Dark electro / Disco noir' is what I call a certain type of music referencing or sampling certain horror movie soundtracks from Goblin to John Carpenter that's popped up recently in certain electro / electro house quarters, and it's a music that I can connect to for several reasons, it's dark and broody and seems to fit the state of the nation at the moment (and I also love the music of those 70s and 80s horror movies).

It seems like a lot of new bands from the French (Zombie Zombie, NOTe Found, daRoc, Justice, Maesthelvin, Mustard Pimp) to the British (Padded Cell, Emperor Machine, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Sisters of Transistors) and even further outposts (Rico Tubbs, Tsk Tsk, Presets, Supermayer) have a common basis to me, so this is also a manifesto of sorts linking these bands together with older and less obvious inspirations (or just my guilty pleasures!) such as Fad Gadget, David Shrigley, Meat Beat Manifesto and Peter Gabriel.

So although not a 'Halloween' mix I've mixed together these horror-inspired tracks with some of the original tracks that I think inspired them, and thrown in some horror movie samples (can you spot where they are from?) as a nod to Halloween...and this is the first in a series. It's also the first mix I've done in Ableton.

Tracklist at the website or in the comments of the MP3, or on an iPod the Lyrics field (press your centre button 4 times).

The running joke has been that people on Twitter just talk about doing their washing up.

So I thought today on the tube back why don't I do a podcast doing the washing up to celebrate the fact I'm on Twitter?

So Prosaic Industries bring you: WashingUpCast #1!!!! I hope you can hear me over the pots and pans. Actually I don't cos my rambling is terrible, but at least kept short by the hatred of washing up.

And remember: if the hands are as soft as your face, it's mild green Washing Up Cast!

Videoblog recorded on Friday night at V&A with people throwing cutlery around in the background (hence the noise, sorry about that) and this is the type of conversation I have with John on a Friday night, we talk about design and new media, t-shirts, visual vs textual content, pigeons vs doves of peace, and the Cold War Modern exhibition which we were there to visit.

I loved DJ Earworm's Reckoner Lockdown mash so much - my candidate for Mash of the Year so far - I made a video mashup for it! And I got an email from him and he loves it! :-D



As usual watch the HQ version at the YT site for the best experience, or download and watch the MP4 link below.

Hiphop is over 30 years old and has become an international phenomenon, in surprising ways from Maasai rappers to Austrian accordion anarchists, from kuduro to kwaito, from east-end grime to german Krautrap.

Here is part one of a journey in 808 beats round the world, via hiphop.

Phil n' Dog, an exclusive new mashup from me (now released over at AudioPornCentral), and loads of great tunes, in the LONGEST EVAH Radio Clash at over 2 hours...in honour of the mighty mighty WOBCast (well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it) What is a Cherry Chopstick anyways? (103Mb, 130Min)